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Jim Wogan

Also Jim Wogan

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Summary

Jim Wogan is named as one of the two people who pulled eight-year-old Timmy Turner from Saint James Harbor in the August–September 1971 Beaver Beacon.

Evidence and limits

The record is limited to this rescue episode. The source does not give a full name, age or address. His fellow rescuer, Ron Wogan, is a probable episode duplicate of Ronald Wojan, son of Walter A. Wojan; a “Jim Wojan” of the same period appears as a schoolboy from 1962 through 1971 snowmobile races and as the Beaver Island Flying Club treasurer that same year (James L. Wojan), and a James L. Wojan explicitly named “son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Wojan” married in 1974 (James L. Wojan). No held source states that this Jim Wogan is any of them; the connection is circumstantial only.

See also

Sources

  1. Names Jim Wogan as one of the two people who pulled Timmy Turner from the harbor after he fell between the ferry and dock; it does not establish a full civil identity or relationship to other Wogan records.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1971-08_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held nine-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1971-08_Beaver-Beacon

Added 1 August 2026 · revised 4 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Jim Wogan”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/people/jim-wogan/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August–September 1971, “Tragedy Averted.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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